Improvement in dumping-cars



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Dumping Car.

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Patented July 13, 1869.

iitrritrd g tatrs pa e optin- JOHN G. CONLON, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

Letters Patent No. 92,426, dated July 13, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN DUMPING-CARS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

' My invention consists of a dumping-car, wherein the floor is divided into two equal longitudinal sections, so as to create two independent or separate compartments or boxes, and a certain mechanical arrangement of links, cranks, and axes, through the agency of which each of the two sections of the floor is tilted, by a single lever, in reverse directions, and towards the two sides of the car, so as to precipitate the dirt, or other substance contained in the car, on each side thereof, simultaneously.

But my iiivention will be better understood by referring to the drawing. p

\Vithin a frame, A B, of which thesides and ends are suifi'ciently raised to accomplish the designed object, to wit, ample containing-capacity, a floor is fitted,

which consists of two distinct longitudinal sections, as

shown indotted lines at a I), each of. the same being provided, at the point of division, with a vertical bulkhead or partition-wall, as high as the exterior walls of the frame, as shown, also, by dotted lines at c.

These partition-walls 0, when the floor is in a horizontal position in connection with the side and end walls of the car or frame thereupon, form two independent and distinct boxes, for the IGCBPtiOlLOf the dirt, or other substance, to be deposited elsewhere.

The sections a b of the floor are each supported by an axis, at or about the centre thereof, and amentral bar, not shown on the drawing, the latter constituting a part of the frame of the car.

The axes (I may extend the whole length of the car, or they may consist of short shafts, as shown at Figure 2. In the former case, as in the latter, they must be firmly secured to the floors, so that when they are rotated, the floors will move with them, and be depressed at one side, and elevated at the other, in a greater or less degree, accordingly as the rotation of the axis is more or less. 7 i

The axes d are supported in journal-boxes, that are secured to the frame, substantially as shown at c 0.

At one end of the car, the axes dproject through the journals 0 e,'sufficiently to allow of the attachment thereto of the cranks c i. 1

At the same end of the car, and at the centre thereof, is secured, in a journal-box, j, a rock-arm, h, from which proj ects upwardly, substantially as shown, a

lever, G.

I This rock-arm h is connected to'the cranks t t" by means of the links on n, and wrist or pivot-pins, at 1,

v2, 3,.2md 4.

The adjustment of all these parts is such, that when the lever G is in a vertical position, the two sections of the floor, or, perhaps, I might more properly say, the floors of the twoicompartments of the car, will occupy a horizontal relation, so that when this lever C is moved in the direction of the crank 'i, the said floors will be tilted outwardly, and hence, in reverse inclination to each other, in precise correspondence with the movement or depression of said lever.

By removing the central longitudinal bar, and re-, versing the direction of the movement of lever C, the contents of the car would be dumped in the middle, for, obviously, such movement of the lever would depress the inside of the/floors instead of the outside; but, in that case, the bulkheads 0 would have to be removed to the outside edges of the floors, and some support provided for the outer edge of the latter, in lieu of the inside support given by the central bar.

So, also, by making the connection of the links m;

and a with the wrist-pins of cranks i t, in such manner, that one or both of said links may be discomiected, a simultaneous dumping from both compartments may be avoided, if occasion should ever require irregulardeposits on the two sides of the truck.

In addition to the advantage of delivering its load on both sides of the truck, my invention is superior to all other dumping-cars of which I have any knowledge, in that its floors may be tilted to any inclination, and thus the'whole of its load can always be dumped without the use of extra hands with shovels to effect this result. Moreover, the floors alone move in the operation of dumping, and hence, there is never any danger that the car will be overturned. Finally, a dumping-car may be built, on my plan, for half the cost of those now in use.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The mechanism, herein described, in connection with a dumping-car, in which there are two distinct compartments, by reason of the construction, as herein de-. scribed, and the floors of these compartments vibrate,

and are supported on axes, as set forth, that are placed underneath, and at or about the centres of the same,

Witnesses:

Burns 3. Rnonns, A. G. PRICE. 

